OREANDA-NEWS Our air defense system worked over Belgorod and the Belgorod region - four air targets were shot down on approach to the city. This was announced by the governor Vyacheslav Gladkov at 12.45 pm. He also said that the missile danger signal in the city has been canceled.

Operational services are clarifying information about the consequences on the ground, the head of the region said. According to preliminary data, there is one victim - the man has shrapnel wounds of the upper and lower extremities. He is taken to the hospital by an ambulance team. The condition is serious. Information on the destruction is being clarified.

Eyewitnesses report that the strikes were in the Old Town neighborhood, where the detention center is located. Windows shattered in nearby houses. Belgorod residents also find fragments of downed air defense shells on the ground.